Long Legislator Poems

I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.

Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.

My training 
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.

Within this...

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My thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.

Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.

Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...

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Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a...

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He was growing old and senile and his hair began to fall,
And he perched on a stool to tell accounts of the past,
Of how he’d fought for his country and of his manifold valiant deeds,
Speaking...

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The academic position that political science
becomes too didactic for scientific neutrality
when political scientists are too pro-democracy
v theocracy, plutocracy, etc.
too cooperatively enthusiastic about economic health,
too positive about empathic trust as our ecopolitical vocational polypath
toward politically inclusive...

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No Gays Allowed! 

By Elton Camp

There’s Roscoe, a fine Christian is he
Just as righteous as anybody could be

With his Bible he did like eating a fish
Roscoe picked out only what he did wish

For “love your...

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Miserable Stump Am I


What a fine morning it was....
With an axe I saw him come
One, two, three trees he passed
Before fixing gaze on me.

The menacing axe so bright....
By the way he removed it
From his shoulder,...

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Work in Progress
Mauna Loa Volcano & Kilauea Sister Volcano

The political and spiritual symbolism of Mauna Loa’s historic eruption
“We’re seeing new land, new geographical features being born right in front of our eyes, and there is...

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Thankfully, another American election cycle has come and went,
Providing folks across the land their opportunity to vent.
For months, we've suffered a gamut of inane hullabaloo,
Now, maybe the pundits will find more productive things to do!

The...

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I am here in solidarity with the earth
Where mothers die
And babies cry
And forest burns
Longing for the affection of birth
I am to tell power
I am the invincible truth

I am no visitor
In this place, in this world
The...

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in ventura every night you leave us outside
post pandemic with this law
that these people have leveraged
interest into the legislature
we exist confronting a housing collapse,
mortgaged slavery of our seconds
titled as dead parcel's with violated civil rights...

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o Woman
you are not woe man!
Yes, not cause of rue-man!

you are woman
for man
you are better half
always

your activeness 
indoor and outdoor 
praiseworthy always


o Woman
you are the inspirational Being
for man; natural loving legislator
always for entire human

man
may not...

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Roscoe Gets a Shock

By Elton Camp

Roscoe is zealous for his rights
To assure ’em he willingly fights

That his conscience be respected
Is absolutely a right to be protected

To his legislator he did say
“I won’t do business with...

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